About the Project

We are looking for a fully‑funded Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bern to work on the atmospheres of transiting sub‑Neptunes. The fellow will contribute to the SNSF‑funded “Exo‑Neptune Census” starting grant led by Assistant Professor Hugh Osborn, which will perform a population‑level analysis of sub‑Neptune radii, masses and atmospheres to understand the formation, composition and evolution of these planets. The postdoc will in particular work on extracting atmospheric volatile abundances and bulk planetary volatile compositions from JWST observations of sub‑Neptunes.

The Exo‑Neptune census, funded by SNSF for 5 years, also includes PhD students working on detection of new Neptune‑like exoplanets in photometric timeseries and their bulk characterisation with space‑ and ground‑based facilities such as CHEOPS, HARPS, HARPS‑N, ESPRESSO, etc. The project also involves key expertise from PD Dr. Daniel Kitzmann & Prof. Brice‑Olivier Demory ...